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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 2:27 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 2:47 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:06 pm
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Rem, suddenly aware of an audience apart from her trainer, came to a sudden stop; her Aggron companion didn't have such responsive breaks, however, and he barreled past gracelessly, staggering to an eventual halt. Luke, recognizing the trainer and pokemon pair that had approached the area, pushed to his feet and moved towards the pokemon, leaning to pat the Jolteon's head briefly, "That's not a bad tactic, huh?" He turned his attention to his human company, his expression quiet but amicable, glad to see that she apparently hadn't been targeted after the conference for defending the apparent 'Rocket.' As he recalled, he'd never really spoken to her properly. "Hey," he raised a hand in greeting, then gestured to the pokemon pair, "sorry, I hope they're not taking up too much room…" The immediate assumption from the pokemon in her arms was that she too was hoping to spend some time training.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:22 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:43 pm
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Rem, who had taken a place standing still as a statue at Luke's side, moved forward and began tracing a wide circle around the unfamiliar human, evaluating her and her pokemon and ignoring grunts from Tartarus that they had been in the middle of something and had yet to finish.
"Well, that's good then," Luke replied, inheriting a portion of her enthusiasm in his tone and features. He hesitated momentarily, unsure if the topic in mind was prudent to bring up, but eventually he decided to chance it. "Thanks for defending me the other day, at the conference," he said. "You got out of there all right?" As he recalled, she and Nicolette had escaped before things escalated, but he was unaware of anything that had happened in the main hall.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:52 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:22 pm
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"Don't worry about it. Seems like Rem was ready for a break - she'll get her focus back eventually," he dismissed, noting how the Jolteon's ears flicked in response to her name. Tartarus was waiting patiently, after all; she'd stop ignoring him sooner or later.
"Stupid and mean and stubborn," he amended with a nod. Though he permitted himself to excuse their actions on grounds of good intentions, it didn't change the fact that they had acted precisely like the Rockets they so claimed to hate. "It's all right; things got kind of crazy after you and Nicolette left. I'm glad you both made it out safely." Thankfully, the sincerity in his tone outweighed the bitterness. The name she mentioned was familiar, and he frowned thoughtfully as he tried to place it. "He was the guy that went in with us, right? And sat behind us?" A friend of Rosie's, it had seemed, but no one he knew himself.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:48 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:09 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:28 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:45 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:43 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:55 pm
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Rem blinked, startled, at the unexpected movement, and tilted her head in the opposite direction, eyes narrowed discerningly. Somehow she felt she was being tested.
"I don't really know a whole lot about the League," he admitted, raising a hand to the back of his neck, "but they've already been in Kodo for a year, right? It can't be that easy." Much as he really would have liked it to be. The fact stood, however, that in that entire year since the League's arrival in the region, practically nothing had outwardly changed.
"I think they probably don't all want to be mean," he said thoughtfully. "Team Rocket's as mean to their own members as they are to us. People who decide they want to quit are killed. They couldn't get away even if they wanted to." He moved a hand to pat Tartarus's cold flank as the Aggron, tired of waiting for Rem, came to stand at his side. "The Rocket they showed that looked like me was my brother. He was kidnapped as a child and forced to join. Rosie and I had pokemon stolen, but he returned them both. There are mean trainers like the ones at the conference, and there are nice Rockets too, I think."
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:29 pm
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Gummy was, once more, standing perfectly still, 'watching' the Jolteon.
"Yeah but not /properly/ here! They didn't have gyms or /anything/!" Henrietta insisted- a fact that she'd actually only realised /after/ getting to the island. "And they didn't arrest people, I think, but they have now!" She then fell silent listening as Luke explained how 'mean' Team Rocket was, even to their own members. Her eyes widened a bit, shocked apparently, at the idea they'd kill the people who wanted to quit and then frowned, sorry but also a little confused as he spoke about Asch. "Oh... I'm sorry! Man, I didn't know about him..." Henrietta, with her eyes still wide, apologised but looked aghast "So he's a Rocket? A 'nice' one?" The information was shocking enough that she wasn't sure what to do with it. Clearly the 'go kick all the rockets off the island' idea wasn't so good if there were 'good' ones... She looked down, looking as though she was thinking hard, and kicked at the grass.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:48 pm
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Slowly, without breaking her gaze, Rem lowered herself to the ground where she performed a swift roll to the side, watching to see how - or if - the Totodile would react.
"Well, that's true," he ceded, "but there's a chance they'll do something instead of gyms. Maybe even something unique to Kodo… though I'm not sure what." Alder had seemed to think it was a good idea, but even the Champion himself had said that he was only a representative and didn't have the authority to make any change by himself. The fact that they'd made arrests was also a positive; hopefully they would be able to get some useful information from them, though he supposed that would put them at risk of being labeled disposable.
"I don't know about 'nice,'" Luke said with a faint laugh. "He had a pretty nasty personality sometimes, but he definitely helped us much more than he hurt us. And there was one time that I ran into a Rocket who said she was involved because it was the only way she had to work on making new medicines." Honestly that chick had seemed a bit crazy, but her intentions had seemed true enough, if not somewhat disjointed. "I don't know what all kind of people join Team Rocket, but I'm sure there are plenty that regret the decision, or that had no choice."
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